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Uplevel Your Business… and Your Whole Life

Discover how to get your business (and your mindset) out of overwhelm and into a system of clarity and abundance using the Uplevel blueprint of Strategy and Soul. It’s simpler than you might think. Strategies like upleveling your pricing models, nailing down your core message, and clean-selling – all the way to an easy (but profitable!) Sunday check-in habit. You can make much more money, take your weekends back, say good-bye to confusion, and…

“I want to gouge my eyes out. Every time I see his name in my appointment book, that’s what I want to do. I just want to poke my own freakin’ eyes out.” Amy was stabbing her salad with a fork, jamming it into her mouth, speaking between bites about a client she hated. Her […]

Years ago, I threw away about $250,000. Give or take. This was back in my songwriter days. When I wasn’t on tour, I hosted these cool little retreats and workshops throughout the year because people kept asking me how to live their dreams and build their businesses. So, I’d do the retreat. I’d teach […]

I was getting pounded by rapid-fire questions. The asker was my doctor, filling in blanks on his computer with each answer I gave. His questions were designed to reveal my attitude toward adversity, my ability to come back after a set-back, and my willingness to take creative risks in life. In other words, he was […]

Last week, my heart broke. So did a valuable piece of raku pottery. Moon Pie jumped up onto the sideboard, but — being a runt-of-the-litter kitty — couldn’t quite make it. In a desperate moment, she reached her arms out to anything that might give her leverage. In this case, it was the raku vase […]

Here’s what a client said last week. (See if it sounds familiar.) “Man, I was really on a roll with this project before the summer. But then the kids were home all summer, and we had vacation, and then I had to get Brian off to school and I’m just, I don’t know, not motivated […]